Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (S.R. No. 280 of 204).

These Regulations implement for Northern Ireland Directive 2001/42/EC of the European Parliament and Council on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment. They Regulations apply to certain plans and programmes, including those co-financed by the European Community, and any modifications to them, which are required by legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions. The requirement for environmental assessment applies, in particular, to any plan or programme prepared for agriculture, forestry, fisheries, energy, industry, transport, waste management, water management, telecommunications, tourism, town and country planning or land use, which sets the framework for future development consent of projects listed in Annex I or II to Council Directive 85/337/EEC on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment, as amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC; and to any plan or programme which, in view of the likely effect on sites, has been determined to require an assessment pursuant to Article 6 or 7 of Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild flora and fauna and applies to other specified plans and programmes. Regulation 7 makes provision for environmental assessment of plans and programmes co-financed by the European Community.